Helping people with blogs, social media & search

* Now that I reframed SEO as part of the bigger popularization efforts I’d like to show you some popularization techniques to learn from music and science to make products and people known. No, you don’t need to “twerk” or…

* Ideas are not websites. You do not optimize them for search or social media. Ideas get spread by people when they are agreeable memorable provide solutions and can be implemented on their own without buying expensive solutions. How can…

* SEO is not the alpha and omega, it has evolved to become more than just search engine optimization. Also it’s not just marketing, you can optimize things without selling them on a market. SEO has progressed and advanced in…

Yeah! It’s almost there, the by now mythical SEO 2.0 ebook. To keep you intrigued here comes another large tools and resources list from the ebook itself containing 30+ links to free tools and helpful articles that elaborate on what…

* When the Web is a series of tubes SEO experts are just the plumbers of it. Just cleaning up and fixing things only gets you so far. What about creative SEO practices everybody can implement beyond just fine tuning?…

Hooray! Here’s another part of my tools and resources from the ebook series. Again it contains more than 30 high quality links to very useful tools and must read articles. I had to split the resources list into four parts…

When I started out on the Web in the late nineties it was full of enthusiasm and limitless possibilities. It was about equality, opportunity and technological utopia. Today corporate interests run paramount with gatekeepers like Google, Facebook, Apple building their own private Internet gated communities.

When I started writing this blog in 2007 I didn’t plan for the long term. All that counted was now. It worked fine for a year or maybe even two. By now it means work though plus a risk of getting caught with spreading nonsense or linking out to corrupted sites.

I love writing so that content creation is a breeze for me. Most business people are overwhelmed when faced with the top down demand to create content for the Internet kings though. What can we do about it?

when you sound generic like a bot you probably deserve to be replaced by one. Then without work you can spend your time in serenity and waste it on useless endeavors like poetry, art, design… wait a minute. Did I just make a full circle here?

* Recently I have published a post on my biggest mistakes of the last decade. One of them was sticking to the cryptic SEO acronym itself. Mere mortals still don’t know what SEO means let alone how it works. Why…

* OK, I admit it, it took me a long time to test and find out (years actually) but finally I’ve found the best free webfont (or web font if you prefer that) for body text readability. Surprisingly it’s a…

* This is a post written by the team of freelance-seo.co.uk with a few suggested changes by myself. Earlier this year, the SEO world was shaken to its core by Google’s cry that guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead…

In the Internet marketing industry most pundits declare that you have to create quality content all the time. It’s often an overwhelming task. You have to reinvent the wheel all the time. In most other niches that’s almost impossible. What…

* The excessive use of superlatives and hyperbole in blogging today leads to such an over-saturation that you actually lose parts of your audience when doing it. Can you write attractively without exaggeration and cheap special effects so that you…

* Many people view social media as a waste of time while others expect them to be some kind of promised land for self promotion. Both groups will never use social media to their fullest potential. The truth lies of…